{"id":677,"date":"2004-09-27T17:01:24","date_gmt":"2004-09-27T22:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2004\/09\/27\/posh-porn\/"},"modified":"2004-09-27T17:01:24","modified_gmt":"2004-09-27T22:01:24","slug":"posh-porn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/27\/posh-porn\/","title":{"rendered":"Posh porn"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Telegraph published an article<\/a> about the current pro-sex feminism trend in literature. It reminds me of a local writer<\/a> whose marketing campaign is very much centered around the question: Is it autofiction, or not?<\/p>\n

What’s with the prostitute-turned-writer trend, and why is it so successful? (My blog gets lots of hits every week for people looking for « photos of N.A.<\/a> » because I mentioned her once.) The article from The Telegraph quotes someone who comes up with an interesting explanation :<\/p>\n

« Women will see her book as quite a fun thing to have, » predicts Pelling, who publishes a monthly extract in The Erotic Review. « It’s going to spark a lot of debates. Is she, isn’t she, would you do that? There are very few women who haven’t at some time or other imagined a scenario in which you find that is the only way you could make a living and entertained the idea, ‘What would that be like, if that was the only way I could make money?’ I think, it’s rather a common thought process, probably like men thinking, ‘What would it be like if I had to go away to war?’ »<\/p>\n

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The Telegraph published an article about the current pro-sex feminism trend in literature. It reminds me of a local writer whose marketing campaign is very much centered around the question: Is it autofiction, or not? What’s with the prostitute-turned-writer trend, and why is it so successful? (My blog gets lots of hits every week for… Continue reading Posh porn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}